MEDIA 6/5
Posted by JAABLOG at 6/5/2008 8:53 PM 
Categories: BSO, Dade, PalmBeach, ARTICLES, St Lucie, JQC, Jenne, Seminole Cty, Federal
Categories: BSO, Dade, PalmBeach, ARTICLES, St Lucie, JQC, Jenne, Seminole Cty, Federal
DAILY BUSINESS REVIEW
The Strange Saga of Jack Thompson
State court layoffs begin, 222 jobs to be eliminated
"Four criminal court case managers. One mental health court case manager. Four attorneys helping criminal and family judges with their legal research.
They are among the 11 administrative employees laid off in recent days by courts in Broward County to comply with state-mandated budget cuts.
Broward General Magistrate Giuseppina Miranda and her secretary also will cut their workload in half to 2.5 days a week in dependency court."
Meet Carlos Martinez, Miami's New Public Defender
But Martinez is not in the same mold as most Cuban transplants. He’s openly gay, for one thing. He’s a Democrat, for another. And he’s made it his life’s work to toil in the public sector defending the poor.
MIAMI HERALD
Once-powerful Jenne now tills veggies at jail
"Jenne also said he didn't require his jail commanders to track the number of inmate fights or other serious incidents, including deaths, despite his administration's use of StarTrac, a statistics-based jail management tool similar to the scandal-plagued PowerTrac crime tracking system."
Miami PD Vows To Refuse Cases
'We're dancing as fast as we can. We can't keep this up. We don't have any alternative,'' Public Defender Bennett Brummer said Monday, noting that his attorneys are required by the Constitution to provide adequate representation for indigent defendants.
If you didn't know better, you would think that Miami-Dade Public Defender Bennett Brummer's response to state budget cuts is an extreme overreaction. Mr. Brummer says that his office will no longer accept appointments to certain noncapital felony cases, such as robbery, burglary, drug possession, grand theft, etc. It's a drastic move that could throw courts into turmoil, and it could end up costing the state more in fees to private attorneys to make up for public defenders' absence than the budget cuts save. The decision is not a bluff or a ploy -- and Mr. Brummer is well justified in taking the action.
SENTINEL
Pompano Beach jail inmate's death under investigation
An inmate's death at the Pompano Beach jail has the county public defender's office investigating whether deputies ignored a man in distress.
BOB NORMAN'S DAILY PULP
The Blog With No Name (JAABLOG)
I pose a question: In its story on what seems to be petty allegations against Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein by rival Alex Areazza, why did the Sun-Sentinel choose not to publish JAABlog's name?
LAW.COM
Gossip Blogs Bedevil Law Firms (sound familiar?)
"Gossip blogs have created an immediacy of information and a quick way to share comments, compared with newspapers and magazines, said Rodgin Cohen, chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell...
"I accept that publicity is a good disinfectant," Cohen said."
PALM BEACH POST
Multimillion-dollar computer system paralyzes Palm Beach County courts
Idle courtrooms prod look at more judge training
An organization that trains new judges may come to St. Lucie County to see if courtrooms can be used more efficiently and not sit empty as much as they do now. Idle courtrooms have become an issue with the judiciary asking the county to build more, but people often see them empty.
ORLANDO SENTINEL
Judge: JQC allegations untrue
"Seminole County Judge Ralph Eriksson filed a new response Tuesday to allegations by a state panel accusing him of being mean and vindictive."
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Salary is a concern for Florida Supreme Court justices
BOSTON HERALD
Federal Judge nabbed in sexy dress is off bench
A shroud of secrecy surrounded yesterday’s departure of U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Somma, 63, who resigned in February, a week after his arrest, but later tried to take it back.
The Strange Saga of Jack Thompson
State court layoffs begin, 222 jobs to be eliminated
"Four criminal court case managers. One mental health court case manager. Four attorneys helping criminal and family judges with their legal research.
They are among the 11 administrative employees laid off in recent days by courts in Broward County to comply with state-mandated budget cuts.
Broward General Magistrate Giuseppina Miranda and her secretary also will cut their workload in half to 2.5 days a week in dependency court."
Meet Carlos Martinez, Miami's New Public Defender
But Martinez is not in the same mold as most Cuban transplants. He’s openly gay, for one thing. He’s a Democrat, for another. And he’s made it his life’s work to toil in the public sector defending the poor.
MIAMI HERALD
Once-powerful Jenne now tills veggies at jail
"Jenne also said he didn't require his jail commanders to track the number of inmate fights or other serious incidents, including deaths, despite his administration's use of StarTrac, a statistics-based jail management tool similar to the scandal-plagued PowerTrac crime tracking system."
Miami PD Vows To Refuse Cases
'We're dancing as fast as we can. We can't keep this up. We don't have any alternative,'' Public Defender Bennett Brummer said Monday, noting that his attorneys are required by the Constitution to provide adequate representation for indigent defendants.
Brummer's plan: Refuse most felony cases. The office will continue to take cases in juvenile and misdemeanor court and the most serious felony cases -- first-degree murders and capital sexual batteries.
Editorial: Budget cuts push defenders into cornerIf you didn't know better, you would think that Miami-Dade Public Defender Bennett Brummer's response to state budget cuts is an extreme overreaction. Mr. Brummer says that his office will no longer accept appointments to certain noncapital felony cases, such as robbery, burglary, drug possession, grand theft, etc. It's a drastic move that could throw courts into turmoil, and it could end up costing the state more in fees to private attorneys to make up for public defenders' absence than the budget cuts save. The decision is not a bluff or a ploy -- and Mr. Brummer is well justified in taking the action.
SENTINEL
Pompano Beach jail inmate's death under investigation
An inmate's death at the Pompano Beach jail has the county public defender's office investigating whether deputies ignored a man in distress.
BOB NORMAN'S DAILY PULP
The Blog With No Name (JAABLOG)
I pose a question: In its story on what seems to be petty allegations against Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein by rival Alex Areazza, why did the Sun-Sentinel choose not to publish JAABlog's name?
LAW.COM
Gossip Blogs Bedevil Law Firms (sound familiar?)
"Gossip blogs have created an immediacy of information and a quick way to share comments, compared with newspapers and magazines, said Rodgin Cohen, chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell...
"I accept that publicity is a good disinfectant," Cohen said."
PALM BEACH POST
Multimillion-dollar computer system paralyzes Palm Beach County courts
Idle courtrooms prod look at more judge training
An organization that trains new judges may come to St. Lucie County to see if courtrooms can be used more efficiently and not sit empty as much as they do now. Idle courtrooms have become an issue with the judiciary asking the county to build more, but people often see them empty.
ORLANDO SENTINEL
Judge: JQC allegations untrue
"Seminole County Judge Ralph Eriksson filed a new response Tuesday to allegations by a state panel accusing him of being mean and vindictive."
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Salary is a concern for Florida Supreme Court justices
BOSTON HERALD
Federal Judge nabbed in sexy dress is off bench
A shroud of secrecy surrounded yesterday’s departure of U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Somma, 63, who resigned in February, a week after his arrest, but later tried to take it back.
What do you expect from the Sun Sentinel? It's been sucking up to its sources for years and is really part of the main problem when it comes to reporting on courthouse issues regarding misbehavior of judges, ect. Besides, it doesn't like Jaablog because they view it as competition and because it tells the truth without the slant they use.
Everybody knows it, Norman just tells it like it is. That's why they call it the Scum Sentinel.
I read both Bob Norman and Jaablog and am glad every day there's somebody responsible and honest enough to report what goes on in the courthouse.
Allot of it stinks and needs to be exposed.
Thank God for Great Attorneys like Barbara Heyer who take on these corrupt public officials. It's a twisted world out there in Broward politics with judges' kin employed by sheriff king pens and their flunkies. They're all in it together helping one another to the public trough. Ask Gardiner about how it works.
I AGREE WITH THE STATEMENT THAT "PUBLICITY IS A GOOD DISINFECTANT" AND IT IS CERTAINLY NEEDED HERE!
Come August they'll get rid of all the GMs. I guess judges are going to have to go to work pretty soon.
Yeah, but when are they going to clean out Court Admin. with all the slackers they have down there? Never seen so many people trying to stay out of one another's way when it comes to doing anything. There's allot of waste rolled up in that office for sure.
When is the JQC going to start taking its responsibilities seriously with the problem judges here is what I want to know? You see it every day.
Ought to be an interesting administrative order. Is Tobin gonna have somebodyelse write it?
Judge Pratt is a fine jurist. Reading that complaint by the pro se plainitff sounds like we have another wacky jack on the blog.
@Anonymous 10:52:
I don't know what after-shave the blog uses, but it apparently attracts more wacky jacks than ants at a picnic.
His point raises an interesting coincidence. Ray just happens to have lunch with P the same day P enters the judgment. Too much of a coincidence. I don't think pro se is a n_tbag because he had the common sense not to sue P or others with lit priv. Pro se is heading towards exxon-moble. Why else would pro se have written in P?
Ok. I have checked out this Broward Women's Organization and this guy is right to say that they are pro-Nova and so is Judge Pratt. Hey now, the Nova president, Ray Ferrero, just happened to be there having lunch with Judge Pratt the same day she made that ruling. This is a judge who is up for re-election in 2011. We will be seeing this story blow-up in her face all over again. Well now, Mr. Humphries, when are you going to take Judge Pratt's deposition anyway?